<![CDATA[io9: auctions]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: auctions]]> http://io9.com/tag/auctions http://io9.com/tag/auctions <![CDATA[Go Broke Helping Others And Firming Up Next May's Social Plans With Iron Man Auction]]> Want to be one of the first people to see Iron Man 2, meet Scarlet Johansson and indulge your charity benefactor side while you're at it? eBay and cinema's new Black Widow are offering a way to make it happen.

Johansson is auctioning off the chance for you and a friend to attend next May's LA premiere for Iron Man 2, meet Johansson herself and also "receive a free glam session" at upscale LA salon Christophe, with proceeds from the auction going to Oxfam America. The actress, herself an Oxfam Ambassador, explained in a statement,

I'm so thrilled to be a part of this eBay charity opportunity, again raising funds for Oxfam. Oxfam is an incredibly worthy organization that I'm most passionate about.

While that doesn't sound like something a sexy Russian superspy would say, we're holding out hope that she's just working undercover. The auction runs until September 24th.

Meet Scarlett Johansson at the premiere of Iron Man 2 [eBay]

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<![CDATA[You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac]]> Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry owned one of the first Mac-Pluses Apple built, back in 1986, and this led to him featuring the computer in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Now you can own Gene's Mac, model number 0001.

Roddenberry's computer isn't the first Mac-Plus off the production line, as some had mistakenly stated. Rather, it's one of the very first Macintosh 128 computers built, which Apple presented to Roddenberry. According to the auction house, Apple then upgraded the computer to a Mac-Plus and gave it the Mac-Plus model number of M-0001. (Apparently, according to our sister site Gizmodo, the computer really is still a Mac-128, and the "Mac-Plus" thing is meaningless.)

Either way, the computer shows how Roddenberry was an early adopter of technology, and gives some context for the famous "Scotty tries to talk to a Mac" scene in TVH:

So how can you own Gene Roddenberry's Mac? It might even cost that much. According to auction house Profiles In History:

This amazing artifact, which is accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from Gene Roddenberry's son, Rod, will be a special addition to Profiles in History's October 8-9, 2009 auction of Hollywood memorabilia. It has an estimated sale price of $800-$1200. Worldwide bidding begins at 12:00 PM (noon) both days and can be placed either in person, via mail, phone, fax or live on the Internet at: http://www.icollector.com/Hollywood-Auction-37_a5736.

And then all you need to do is launch the Mac-Plus into space, where it'll be found by alien intelligences and upgraded to become super-intelligent, so it can come back to Earth and kill us all.

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<![CDATA[Introducing Darth "Your Name Here"]]> Authors Sean Williams and Karen Miller are auctioning off a "walk-on role" in their next Star Wars novels, with the proceeds to benefit Australian brushfires victims. You could be enshrined in Expanded-Universe continuity! [Karen Miller]

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<![CDATA[Turn Your Living Room Into The Galactica's CIC]]> You may not be able to have the Cylon Six in your apartment, but at least you can own her slinky red dress. As we mentioned a while back, a ton of props from Battlestar Galactica will be auctioned off when the final episodes start airing in January. And now some more details about the auctions have come out, including exactly how close you can come to recreating the CIC in your garage.

The auction, organized by NBC/Universal and Propworx, will take place on January 17 and 18 in Pasadena, and will include a ton of costumes including Starbuck's flight suit. It'll also include production sketches and set plans, an original Viper helmet, President Roslin's desk, Admiral Adama's uniform and his painting of the first Cylon War, some consoles from the CIC AND the actual Arrow of Apollo, which Starbuck retrieved from Caprica.

Meanwhile, there'll also be an online auction after each of the remaining BSG episodes, auctioning off props and costumes from that particular episode. Some of the proceeds from the auctions will go to the United Way. [Wired]

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<![CDATA[Meteorite vs. Dinosaur Poop — Who Wins?]]> On the auction block at Bonham's last week were two strange items: a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite from the dawn of the universe (left), and two chunks of fossilized dinosaur poop (right). Which do you think sold for the most money?


Weirdly, it was the dinosaur poop, a relatively common item among fossil hounds that normally would sell for about $1000 U.S. But this time, it got snatched up for nearly twice that, while the meteorite didn't sell at all. Maybe that was because the beautiful rock (a slice of which you are seeing above) started bids at over $2 million U.S. Made of palasite, a common metorite material, the big rock was found in China. Supposedly the owner has plans to sell it to a private party.

Dinosaur poop chunks, known as coprolites, are so common that you can even buy jewelry made out of them.

Dinosaur Feces - 1; 4.5 MYO Meteorite - 0 [Environmental Graffiti]

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<![CDATA[UFO Home in Tennessee Sold for $135 K]]> UFOs are much cheaper to buy than almost any abode in San Francisco or New York. This three-bedroom alien ship—complete with the landing gear legs, a retractable staircase that descends to the ground, cubed windows, and a strangely old-timey streetlamp outside—sold for a mere $135K at an auction in Tennessee this past weekend. The person who bought it, a certain Pearl Johnson from Cincinnati, Ohio, refused to comment on her purchase. Image by AP. The Daily Star via Boing Boing

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